Go North East: Service Suggestions v2
Go North East: Service Suggestions v2
(30 Mar 2017, 7:33 am)RJamie M You can't easily fit anything longer a solo around the hospital, I think the council and the hospital would be jubious if a full sized bus was allocated.Easy enough, for the 46 from Shotley Bridge turn right following the 45 route (Consett bound) but follow the road straight ahead and it brings you to the cross roads at medomsley edge. The turning area at the hospital will easily accommodate a double decker, X71 doesn't carry that many between Consett and burnhopfield, The X72 variation carries even less.
I think the 6 (or a varient) should run via hobson.
How on earth do you get from bridgehill to medomsley, also on the 46?
As I previously said, the X70/X71 pick up and drop off a hell of a lot of passengers in the morning. I'm fairly sure the X71 is contracted through hamsterly mill to lintz, but even if it isn't - it's a link that hasn't been broken for near decades, and it's healthy. There is no reason to run a limited stop service from consett. During the day they are empty enough as they are, without omitting stops.
(30 Mar 2017, 7:33 am)RJamie M You can't easily fit anything longer a solo around the hospital, I think the council and the hospital would be jubious if a full sized bus was allocated.Easy enough, for the 46 from Shotley Bridge turn right following the 45 route (Consett bound) but follow the road straight ahead and it brings you to the cross roads at medomsley edge. The turning area at the hospital will easily accommodate a double decker, X71 doesn't carry that many between Consett and burnhopfield, The X72 variation carries even less.
I think the 6 (or a varient) should run via hobson.
How on earth do you get from bridgehill to medomsley, also on the 46?
As I previously said, the X70/X71 pick up and drop off a hell of a lot of passengers in the morning. I'm fairly sure the X71 is contracted through hamsterly mill to lintz, but even if it isn't - it's a link that hasn't been broken for near decades, and it's healthy. There is no reason to run a limited stop service from consett. During the day they are empty enough as they are, without omitting stops.
(30 Mar 2017, 7:58 am)GX03 Easy enough, for the 46 from Shotley Bridge turn right following the 45 route (Consett bound) but follow the road straight ahead and it brings you to the cross roads at medomsley edge. The turning area at the hospital will easily accommodate a double decker, X71 doesn't carry that many between Consett and burnhopfield, The X72 variation carries even less.
(30 Mar 2017, 7:58 am)GX03 Easy enough, for the 46 from Shotley Bridge turn right following the 45 route (Consett bound) but follow the road straight ahead and it brings you to the cross roads at medomsley edge. The turning area at the hospital will easily accommodate a double decker, X71 doesn't carry that many between Consett and burnhopfield, The X72 variation carries even less.
700/701 - Seaburn Morrisons - St Peters Campus - The Docks - Park Lane Interchange - City Campus - Clanny House - Sunderland Royal Hospital - Durham Road - Herrington Burn - Philadelphia (Success Road) - Grasswell - Houghton le Spring - Doxford International - Moorside - Doxford Park Shops - Tunstall Village - Ryhope - Grangetown - Sunderland Eye Infirmary - Park Lane Interchange - Stadium of Light - St Peter's Campus - Seaburn Morrisons
I think all the buses that go via Houghton Road - The Burn should either go via Gillas Ln-Seaham Rd-Market Place-Lake Rd-Houghton Church or either Houghton Rd-Hetton Rd- Houghton Church:
454, 968, ED2 and Wear Xpress X5: Gillas Ln - Seaham Road - Market Place - Lake Road - Houghton Centre
Red Arrows X1 and See it Do it Sunderland 35/A:
Houghton Road - Hetton Road - Houghton Centre.
I'm not a fan of the X66 being continuously downgraded - initially with extra stops and now with it being sent on a grand tour of the Metrocentre, but get why it is.
To maintain some sort of integrity and stop the inevitable issues with reliability, I wondered if there would be an alternative.
We already see Green Solars going around the front of the Metrocentre, so why not offer that as the S1 replacement?
I would love to see GNE come into Shildon...Arriva are crap, the 5 and 5A always seem to run late, the 1 isnt too bad and the X1 goes nowhere near my house...Weardale 7 upto Spennymoor isn't too bad but, but it only runs hourly Monday-Friday...I want my favourite Bus Company back lol
2 choices...
The X21 sits in Bishop for ages so extend one of them down to the King William at Shildon
Bishop Auckland-Cockton Hill-South Church-Shildon
Turn the 18 into a circular route
Bishop Auckland-Coundon-Eldon-Shildon King William-Shildon Church St-Shildon Main St-Hippodrome-Tindale Cres-Woodhouse Close-Bishop Auckland
New Service 17...Basically 18 in Reverse
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It's a fair point. I'm assuming intu offer an incentive for this? Can't imagine it's massively profitable.
Can't he,p but wonder if intu would be better off running their staff car park mini bus around the centre. Let Asda, Mecca and ikea fork out for the rest
(22 Jul 2017, 11:25 pm)MrFozz I would love to see GNE come into Shildon...Arriva are crap, the 5 and 5A always seem to run late , the 1 isnt too bad and the X1 goes nowhere near my house...Weardale 7 upto Spennymoor isn't too bad but, but it only runs hourly Monday-Friday...I want my favourite Bus Company back lol
2 choices...
The X21 sits in Bishop for ages so extend one of them down to the King William at Shildon
Bishop Auckland-Cockton Hill-South Church-Shildon
Turn the 18 into a circular route
Bishop Auckland-Coundon-Eldon-Shildon King William-Shildon Church St-Shildon Main St-Hippodrome-Tindale Cres-Woodhouse Close-Bishop Auckland
New Service 17...Basically 18 in Reverse
(22 Jul 2017, 11:25 pm)MrFozz I would love to see GNE come into Shildon...Arriva are crap, the 5 and 5A always seem to run late , the 1 isnt too bad and the X1 goes nowhere near my house...Weardale 7 upto Spennymoor isn't too bad but, but it only runs hourly Monday-Friday...I want my favourite Bus Company back lol
2 choices...
The X21 sits in Bishop for ages so extend one of them down to the King William at Shildon
Bishop Auckland-Cockton Hill-South Church-Shildon
Turn the 18 into a circular route
Bishop Auckland-Coundon-Eldon-Shildon King William-Shildon Church St-Shildon Main St-Hippodrome-Tindale Cres-Woodhouse Close-Bishop Auckland
New Service 17...Basically 18 in Reverse
(22 Jul 2017, 10:14 pm)Andreos1 I'm not a fan of the X66 being continuously downgraded - initially with extra stops and now with it being sent on a grand tour of the Metrocentre, but get why it is.
To maintain some sort of integrity and stop the inevitable issues with reliability, I wondered if there would be an alternative.
We already see Green Solars going around the front of the Metrocentre, so why not offer that as the S1 replacement?
(22 Jul 2017, 10:14 pm)Andreos1 I'm not a fan of the X66 being continuously downgraded - initially with extra stops and now with it being sent on a grand tour of the Metrocentre, but get why it is.
To maintain some sort of integrity and stop the inevitable issues with reliability, I wondered if there would be an alternative.
We already see Green Solars going around the front of the Metrocentre, so why not offer that as the S1 replacement?
Pertinent observation and quite right that GNE should respond to changing trends.
Hexham moved the bus station from its central location to make way for the development of new shops - which have failed to materialise, and the old bus station remains derelict as the remaining town centre shops continue their decline (not helped by the bus station no longer delivering customers into the town centre).
A BAKERY in the heart of Hexham town centre has unexpectedly shut its doors for the last time. (click to read)
This bakery was so close to the old bus station that passengers passed by it to and from buses and was close enough to buy something between buses during their layover.
Now the walk from the new bus station means that people no longer bother.
http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/hex...845677e-ds (click to read)
(23 Jul 2017, 7:04 am)G-CPTN Pertinent observation and quite right that GNE should respond to changing trends.
Hexham moved the bus station from its central location to make way for the development of new shops - which have failed to materialise, and the old bus station remains derelict as the remaining town centre shops continue their decline (not helped by the bus station no longer delivering customers into the town centre).
(23 Jul 2017, 7:04 am)G-CPTN Pertinent observation and quite right that GNE should respond to changing trends.
Hexham moved the bus station from its central location to make way for the development of new shops - which have failed to materialise, and the old bus station remains derelict as the remaining town centre shops continue their decline (not helped by the bus station no longer delivering customers into the town centre).
, won't be long until there be GNE staff at bus station telling the drivers to terminate at bus station and head back to Gateshead. Won't be long when the X10 will be bypassing Dalton Park when events are on as the car queues will be trailing all down the A19 southbound etc...I don't know why GNE can't run the metromini bus services around the S1 route, GNE tried extending the X66 before and it ended up in a right pickle with heavy delays around the car parks, the bus isn't going to win against the car user, people starting to get lazy, the old fashioned way to get off at the bus station and walk but seems people these days are to lazy to even do that , won't be long until there be GNE staff at bus station telling the drivers to terminate at bus station and head back to Gateshead. Won't be long when the X10 will be bypassing Dalton Park when events are on as the car queues will be trailing all down the A19 southbound etc...
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(23 Jul 2017, 6:56 am)Dan By suggesting that the 97/97A are extended via the S1 route, I'm not sure you do understand why the X66 service has had extra stops added and will now be extended via the S1 route?
By and large, footfall at the Metrocentre is going down. Like most shopping centres, a lot of people have moved away from the traditional methods of shopping, in favour of online shopping. On a service like the X66, I think it is only right for Go North East to move with the times, instead of sticking to the same route that was always traditionally known, despite shopping habits changing massively since then.
One of the main areas of the Metrocentre that is growing, unlike the other shopping malls, is the yellow quadrant. The yellow mall is where the leisure activities and restaurants are based. If this is the main place in the Metrocentre that people are travelling to, it seems a great idea in my eyes to provide a direct bus there from Gateshead, that takes under 15 minutes and runs at a regular frequency through the day.
It's important to understand here that Go North East faces their biggest competitor on their Metrocentre services: the car. Even I, as someone who gets free travel, often use the car when travelling to the Metrocentre. Why? A lack of a direct service to where I usually shop in the Metrocentre. I can drive to the Metrocentre in 15-20 minutes depending on traffic, but you're looking at borderline an hour by the time I get the Metro to Gateshead, X66 to Metrocentre, then walk to the shopping mall of my preference (or wait for a connection to S1 - which may have just left as I arrived). What is the appeal of travelling by public transport, especially when there is free car parking?
Time will tell with the X66 - but with the right marketing, it can only be a good thing.
(23 Jul 2017, 6:56 am)Dan By suggesting that the 97/97A are extended via the S1 route, I'm not sure you do understand why the X66 service has had extra stops added and will now be extended via the S1 route?
By and large, footfall at the Metrocentre is going down. Like most shopping centres, a lot of people have moved away from the traditional methods of shopping, in favour of online shopping. On a service like the X66, I think it is only right for Go North East to move with the times, instead of sticking to the same route that was always traditionally known, despite shopping habits changing massively since then.
One of the main areas of the Metrocentre that is growing, unlike the other shopping malls, is the yellow quadrant. The yellow mall is where the leisure activities and restaurants are based. If this is the main place in the Metrocentre that people are travelling to, it seems a great idea in my eyes to provide a direct bus there from Gateshead, that takes under 15 minutes and runs at a regular frequency through the day.
It's important to understand here that Go North East faces their biggest competitor on their Metrocentre services: the car. Even I, as someone who gets free travel, often use the car when travelling to the Metrocentre. Why? A lack of a direct service to where I usually shop in the Metrocentre. I can drive to the Metrocentre in 15-20 minutes depending on traffic, but you're looking at borderline an hour by the time I get the Metro to Gateshead, X66 to Metrocentre, then walk to the shopping mall of my preference (or wait for a connection to S1 - which may have just left as I arrived). What is the appeal of travelling by public transport, especially when there is free car parking?
Time will tell with the X66 - but with the right marketing, it can only be a good thing.
Not to go too off point but retail footfall is up. Intu are reporting rises and we've got the holidays coming up
I think the short 1s from Whitley Bay to Gateshead should be withdrawn and revises eveey 30 mins just Whitley Bay to Wrekenton.
The 11 is providing the alternate service between Gateshead and Whitley Bay still providing the 15 min link between major points Gateshead. newcaatle. Byker. Wallsend.North Shields.a d Whitley Bay.
(30 Jul 2017, 6:53 pm)ifm001 I think the short 1s from Whitley Bay to Gateshead should be withdrawn and revises eveey 30 mins just Whitley Bay to Wrekenton.
The 11 is providing the alternate service between Gateshead and Whitley Bay still providing the 15 min link between major points Gateshead. newcaatle. Byker. Wallsend.North Shields.a d Whitley Bay.
(30 Jul 2017, 6:53 pm)ifm001 I think the short 1s from Whitley Bay to Gateshead should be withdrawn and revises eveey 30 mins just Whitley Bay to Wrekenton.
The 11 is providing the alternate service between Gateshead and Whitley Bay still providing the 15 min link between major points Gateshead. newcaatle. Byker. Wallsend.North Shields.a d Whitley Bay.
